life right now:
i am really sick. had a fever of 101.2 sunday night, but getting a little better.
i have a test friday.
these two things + med school applications do not agree.
however my interview at UCD med school went okay, i think.

re: amendment 26 in mississippi
i am a pro-lifer who is politically pro-choice.
i believe that fetuses are human beings.
i believe that "person" has become a politically and socially twisted word.
nevertheless, this is a stupid amendment because it overshoots incredibly.
and it doesn't solve anything.
because the people behind the proposed amendment didn't write it well or thoroughly with with proper thought,
and so there are dumb implied consequences, like women can't take birth control and miscarriages will be criminally prosecuted.
all you're going to end up with is a bunch of babies with mothers who do not want them or are not ready for them in some way.
they will grow up in conditions that are not as good as they deserve.
this isn't even really about pro-life or pro-choice.
this is about a stupidly written law that raises more questions than answers.
this is about a poorly constructed amendment that will make life harder for women and their future children alike.

someday we're going to lower the number of abortions from 1 every 20 seconds to almost nothing. we're not going to have to purposefully snuff out a human life because we're going to invest in education, sexual and general, we're going to make our living environments better, we're going to teach responsible family planning, we're going to put the rapists away, and we're going to do all those things because we respect mothers as humans, we respect the pain and suffering and difficult decision-making that an abortion means for mothers, and we respect the beautiful fragility of human life. but we're not going to get rid of abortions by controlling women and by degrading them and by telling them they can't take birth control.

i don't think being pro-life has ever meant that we believe the mother is LESS a person or that the mother deserves less respect. i only think that an ugly act like abortion should not be the champion of any civil rights movement, and that we ought to respect the miracle of every fetus, scientifically and spiritually and emotionally, as human beings. but because i believe in women's rights and women's choices and women's personhood, and because i believe in raising children in the best situations we possibly can, i am against amendment 26 in mississippi. whether you're pro-choice or pro-life, if you have the time, you should research amendment 26 and take action against it.

this is the least biased article i could find: http://www.thedmonline.com/article/facts-about-amendment-26.

i also made this entry public in case any one wants to link a pro-lifer argument for being against amendment 26.

(and now i'm going back to bed. good night.)

ALL I CARE ABOUT RIGHT NOW

IS THAT I GET TO MEET JARED LETO

IN 3 DAYS

that is all.

I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE REMEMBERS THAT SURVEY I ASKED EVERYONE TO TAKE AGES AGO, but my presentation on my findings is tomorrow, so i've finally compiled all my data, and it's very interesting. the powerpoint is sort of the trimmed down, abbreviated version, but i think most of the data is represented there. what i found was both frightening consistent and really interesting.

some folks were interested in seeing my data, so HERE IT IS for your viewing pleasure.

i didn't include all the data from the group of people who answered that they spend 5-7 hours/day on the internet, but the data was consistently an intermediate between the two extreme groups, sometimes leaning one way or another-- which suggests that 5-7 hours is sort of the threshold point.

( HERE IS MY PRESENTATION. )

THANKS AGAIN FOR EVERYONE'S HELP.

slight friends list cut. just a few journals that haven't updated in a while, people i don't talk to anymore, etc. partially because i need to stop letting the past bother me and because i shouldn't tolerate things that i don't want to tolerate, especially when i've made a point of making that clear.

if we need to talk about it, comments are screened.

NO ONE PAN SHOULD HAVE ALL THAT FLOUR:

I had some chicken sent to me
Doin’ something mean to it
Chew it better than anyone you ever seen chew it
It came from my neighbors, also got a new Le Creuset
No one ever told me that it doesn’t rhyme with Le Croos-it.

No one pan should have all that flour
The stock’s cookin’, I just count the hours
Roast chicken, the drippings mixed with flour
(21st tasty gravy pan)

The sauce is broken, the yolks cooked, the butter frozen
Benedict? Looks like dick, muh’fuckin’ emulsions
Huh? Ma’fuckin’ emulsions
Just eat your scrambled eggs and some buttered rolls, then.

for this meme, choose one character of yours and one character of mine-- and then i will write out how they hook up, settle into a long term relationship and/or marriage, and describe their firstborn child/children. crack pairings and old characters are acceptable. Make this hideous.

/PUNCHES LEAH (tenderly)
/STEALS THIS MEME FROM HER





yeah
sup
presentation today, ya'll
I WISH I HAD THOUGHT TO RAP ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR
but instead i'm using a powerpoint.......

next time.
next time.